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TPP Week-In-Review
- On Monday, Jake defended the role of the free market in managing public services in response
to a New York Times report on the privatization of some public libraries, and Charles pointed to several cases of sexual hypocrisy and tragedy, blaming them on theological conservatism’s creation of strict taboos
- On Tuesday, Han argued in favor of American military might and intervention abroad, especially in light of China’s rise to power, and Charles argued that the debate over public school library blacklists distracts from a larger and more important discussion on how children should be raised
- On Wednesday, John suggested that religion and religious conflict has rarely been about actual theological content, and pointed to a recent Pew poll illustrating Americans’ ignorance of their own religion as evidence (take the poll yourself), and Luke argued for a parental prerogative to raise children according to certain values and ideas in response to Han’s post on Tuesday
- On Thursday, Charles claimed that while targeted sanctions on some Iranian officials are morally unproblematic, larger economic sanctions against the whole of Iran could be as harmful as a war
In Others’ Words
- Jeff Sharlet wrote for Mother Jones on how the C Street Family has gone global
- Larry Arnhart at Darwinian Conservatism reviewed a book by John Hare on Aristotle’s Platonic Religion, and discussed
whether morality can survive without religious belief
- A writer-member at The Seminal claimed that the Left-Right paradigm is over
- Patrick Deneen at Front Porch Republic discussed the difference between classical liberalism and conservatism in order to show that America is, actually, liberal
- Miles Unterreiner reviewed Craig Biddles’ talk on Objectivism for The Stanford Daily
- Andy Stern claimed at The Huffington Post that there is actually a progressive candidate in the Florida Senate race, and that you should vote for her
- Alexandre Erler, for Oxford’s Practical Ethics, asks if we should get rid of carnivores if we could
- The new National Research Council’s rankings of graduate programs have been a total disaster
- Dale Jamieson and Robert Elliot have come up with a new kind of consequentialism, called ‘progressive consequentialism’
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